Defenition of the word pettiness

• Defenition of the word pettiness

  • lack of generosity in trifling matters
  • narrowness of mind or ideas or views
  • the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous

Synonyms for the word pettiness

• • meanness
  • nastiness
  • parsimoniousness
  • slightness
  • small-mindedness
  • stinginess
  • trivial-mindedness
  • triviality

Similar words in the pettiness

• • pettiness

Hyponyms for the word pettiness

• • joke

Hypernyms for the word pettiness

• • closeness
  • meanness
  • minginess
  • narrow-mindedness
  • narrowness
  • niggardliness
  • niggardness
  • parsimoniousness
  • parsimony
  • tightfistedness
  • tightness
  • unimportance

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